Crossword-Solution: CACAO 5 letters, 142 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Cacao n. A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America
and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds
about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are
prepared.

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Another word for cocoa beans 1 answer
Around and around, circle tree 1 answer
Bean harvested by the Aztecs 1 answer
Bean often used in nib form 1 answer
Bean plant harvested for its sweet pulp 1 answer
Bean taken to Europe by Cortes 1 answer
Bean that chocolate is made from 1 answer
Bean that is an excellent source of magnesium 1 answer
Bean used as pre-Columbian currency 1 answer
Bean used in bars 1 answer
Bean used to make chocolate 1 answer
Bean-bearing tree 1 answer
Bean-yielding tree 1 answer
Big export of Ecuador and Nigeria 1 answer
Butter-yielding bean 1 answer
Caffeinated beans 1 answer
Cameroon export 1 answer
Candy tree? 1 answer
Chocoholic's favorite tree? 1 answer
Chocolate base 1 answer
Chocolate bean 1 answer
Chocolate bean tree 1 answer
Chocolate component 1 answer
Chocolate maker's tree 1 answer
Chocolate need 1 answer
Chocolate-making bean 1 answer
Chocolate-yielder 1 answer
Chocolate-yielding bean 1 answer
Chocolatier's raw material 1 answer
Confectioner's crop 1 answer
Confectioner's plant 1 answer
Confectioner's raw material 1 answer
Creme de __ (chocolate liqueur) 1 answer
Crme de (chocolate liqueur) 1 answer
Crème de ___ (grasshopper ingredient) 1 answer
Crème de ___ (ingredient in a Brandy Alexander) 1 answer
Dessert bean 1 answer
Equatorial plantation crop 1 answer
Evergreen bean 1 answer
Evergreen whose seeds are used to make candy 1 answer
Flavoring bean 1 answer
Harvest for Hershey 1 answer
Hershey company purchase 1 answer
Hershey harvest 1 answer
Hershey import 1 answer
Hershey purchase 1 answer
Hershey's raw material 1 answer
Important West Indies crop 1 answer
Ingredient in some mole 1 answer
Ingredient of chocolate 1 answer
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with CACAO (5)

Coca is not to be confused with cocoa which comes from cacao seeds and is used in making chocolate, cocoa, and cocoa butter.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
Coca is not to be confused with cocoa, which comes from cacao seeds and is used in making chocolate, cocoa, and cocoa butter.
The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993
Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chloridess, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
You should have seen us; the verandah was like an Irish bog; our hands and faces were bedaubed with soil; and Faauma was supposed to have struck the right note when she remarked (_à propos_ of nothing), ‘Too much _eleele_ (soil) for me!’ The cacao (you must understand) has to be planted at first in baskets of plaited cocoa-leaf.
Vailima Letters Robert Louis Stevenson 2013
Experiment is continually afoot: coffee and cacao, both of excellent quality, are among the more recent outputs; and from one plantation quantities of pineapples are sent at a particular season to the Sydney markets.
A Footnote to History Robert Louis Stevenson 2005

Quotes with CACAO (3)

Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet conc…
Sarah Vowell
I drive out to this quail farm, where I get a lot of these incredible quail eggs, which I eat all day long. And I eat a lot of superfoods like goji, cacao and chia seeds, things like that. And I like unpasteurised milk of the goat and the sheep. They send it once a week from Pennsylvania, from the Amish farms, and I get it in Los Angeles.
Vincent Gallo
You can easily compare chocolate to wine. What makes a good wine is usually a good terroir, a good grape, and the weather has something to do with it. Chocolate is the same, from where the cacao bean grows to what type of tree it grows on.
Jacques Torres
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 276 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).